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Prof. Garrod died at his father’s house, in Harley Street, 
on the 17th of October last. We reprint (with the sanction 
of the writer), from the pages of ‘ Nature,’ the following 
short sketch of his life and scientific career :— 
“The son of an eminent physician (Dr. Alfred Baring 
Garrod, F.R.S.), he was born in London on May 18, 1846, 
received a medical education at King’s College, London, 
and in 1868 entered St. John’s College, Cambridge. He 
graduated (B.A.) in 1871, taking the highest place in the 
natural-science tripos. In due course he took his M.A. 
degree, and was elected a Fellow of his college in 1873. 
His earliest scientific predilections were chiefly for mathe- 
matics and physics; and the knowledge of these subjects 
which he acquired when a student was of great value to 
him in his biological researches. The mechanics of phy- 
siology was the subject to which he first turned his atten- 
tion as a scientific investigator; and while still an under- 
graduate he communicated a paper on the cause of the 
diastole of the ventricles of the heart to the ‘Journal of 
Anatomy’ (vol. i. 1869). About the same time he sent 
to the Royal Society the results of an interesting series of 
experiments made upon himself with the view of ascertaining 
the causes of the minor fluctuations in the temperature of 
the human body while at rest, from which he concluded 
that these fluctuations. mainly result from alterations in 
the amount of blood exposed at the surface to the influence 
of absorbing and conducting media. These were published 
in the ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society,’ vol. xvii. (1869). 
A series of papers in the ‘ Proceedings of the Royal Society’ 
and in the ‘ Journal of Anatomy’ followed, giving the result 
of observations vpon the circulation of the blood, conducted 
with great ingenuity by means of the sphygmograph, aided 
by various modifications and improvements upon the original 
instrument due to his inventive and mechanical skill. It 
is, indeed, probable that physiology is the subject to which 
he would most willingly have devoted his attention, had not 
his energies been turned to the pursuit of morphology by 
his receiving the appointment, in January 1872, of Prosector 
